• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.53 no.3
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• pp.197-205
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• 2004

In this paper, we studied on the hardware implementation of a 3${\times}$3 window weighted median filter using bit-level sorting algorithm. The weighted median filter is a generalization of the median filter that is able to preserve :,harp changes in signal and is very effective in removing impulse noise. It has been successfully applied in various areas such as digital signal and video/image processing. The weighted median filters are, for the most part, based on word-level sorting methods, which have more hardware and time complexity, However, the proposed bit-serial sorting algorithm uses weighted adder tree to overcome those disadvantages. It also offers a simple pipelined filter architecture that is highly regular with repeated modules and is very suitable for weighted median filtering. The algorithm was implemented by VHDL and graphical environment in MAX＋PlusII of ALTERA. The simulation results indicate that the proposed design method is more efficient than the traditional ones.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.24-29
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• 2009

Sound source localization system is used in a robot, a video conference and CCTV(Closed-circuit television) systems. In this Sound source localization systems are applied to human and they can receive a number of sound data frames during speaking. In this paper, we propose methods which is reducing angle estimation error by selecting sound data frame which can more precisely compute the angles from inputted sound data frame. After selected data converted to angle, the error of sound source localization recognition system can be reduced by applying to medium filter. By the experiment using proposed system it is shown that the average error of angle estimation in sound source recognition system can be reduced up to 31 %.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.167-170
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• 1998

음성신호의 특징적인 성분인 피치를 검출하는 알고리즘 중 실시산 구현이 손쉬운 3단계를 클리핑 알고리즘을 PC상에서의 처리를 위하여 구현하였다. 이 알고리즘을 통하여 검출되는 피치의 안정성 및 정확성을 높이기 위해서 적용된 창함수, LPF, 클리핑 자기상관값계산, 비선형 감쇄, 등의 전처리 필터링과, 배수피치 검출 및 정정, 메디언 필터링을 사용하여 피치를 검출하였다. 또한 이 알고리즘을 이용하여 DSP의 도움을 얻지 않고 PC상에서 음성을 분석하여 스펙트로그램, 파형, 에너지, 피치 등을 출력하는 프로그램인 Visual Analysis Tool for sounds(VAT)의 출력화면을 통하여 피치검출을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.791-794
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• 2002

본 연구는 영상분석에서 이진 영상의 잡음제거 및 에지 검출을 위한 연구로 임펄스 잡음이 존재하는 영상의 잡음 제거는 임펄스가 크거나 잡음 에너지가 상대적으로 작을 때는 기존의 메디언 필터를 이용하여 잡음을 제거하지만 임펄스 잡음과 같지 않는 잡음이 존재하는 경우에는 본 연구에서 제안한 형태학적인 연산을 적용하여 잡음을 제거하고, 에지를 검출하는 방법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.473-476
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• 2017

As the society has developed into a digital information age society, a lot of electronic communication equipments are popularized. However, there are various causes of noise during signal transmission between communication devices. The noise generated in the communication system is a white noise that is distributed evenly in all frequency bands. This white noise causes system errors and lowers reliability. Therefore, in this paper, the existing Gaussian filter, Median filter, Alpha trimmed mean filter, and min/max filter for removing white noise are described and the characteristics and performance of each filter are compared with each other.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.28-34
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• 2002

Irregular reflected signals on a sea surface make clutters to a ship's radar image. Clutters are similar to Gaussian white noises which are very harmful for detecting objecting at sea by a ship's radar. To remove the clutter effects, many papers show the algorithms by antenna, filters, and so on. This paper shows a new algorithm which uwes Wavelet and Morphology median filter conceps for removing clutter and enhancing image in order to detect well a distressed of being rescued ship in a rough weather condition at sea.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.601-608
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• 2014

In this study we propose an image denoising algorithm appropriate for mobile smart phone equipped with limited computing ability, which has better performance and at the same time comparable quality comparing with previous studies. The proposed image denoising algorithm for mobile smart phone cameras in low level light environment reduces computational complexity and also prevents edge smoothing by extracting just Gaussian noises from the noisy input image. According to the experiment result, we verified that our algorithm has much better PSNR value than methods applying mean filter or median filter. Also the result image from our algorithm has better clear quality since it preserves edges while smoothing input image. Moreover, the suggested algorithm reduces computational complexity about 52% compared to the method applying original Laplacian mask computation, and we verified that our algorithm has good denoising quality by implementing the algorithm in Android smart phone.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.371-378
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• 2000

In this study, we proposed pathological pattern detection system for X-ray chest image using artificial neural network. In a physical examination, radiologists have checked on the chest image projected the view box by a magnifying glass and found out what the disease is. Here, the detection of X-ray fluoroscopy is tedious and time-consuming for human doing. Lowering of efficiency for chest diagnosis is caused by lots mistakes of radiologist because of detecting the micro pathology from the film of small size. So, we proposed the method for disease detection using artificial neural network and digital image processing on a X-ray chest image. This method composes the function of image sampling, median filter, image equalizer used neural network and pattern recognition used neural network. We confirm this method has improved the problem of a conventional method.